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New Community Opportunities Center Presents … Effective Partnerships to Increase Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Hou

New Community Opportunities Center Presents … Effective Partnerships to Increase Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Housing. Part II: Forging Legal Alliances to Ensure Fair Housing Enforcement December 10, 2012 3:00P.M. – 4:30P.M. EST Presenters : Kim Borowicz Ken Walden . 0.

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New Community Opportunities Center Presents … Effective Partnerships to Increase Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Hou

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  1. New Community Opportunities Center Presents… Effective Partnerships to Increase Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Housing Part II: Forging Legal Alliances to Ensure Fair Housing Enforcement December 10, 2012 3:00P.M. – 4:30P.M. EST Presenters: Kim Borowicz Ken Walden 0

  2. New Community Opportunities Center Presents… Effective Partnerships to Increase Accessible, Affordable, Integrated Housing Part II: Forging Legal Alliances to Ensure Fair Housing Enforcement December 10, 2012 3:00P.M. – 4:30P.M. EST Presenters: Kim Borowicz Ken Walden 1

  3. CILs and Attorneys Question: Does your CIL have attorneys on staff? _____ yes _____ no, but wish we did _____ no, but happy we don’t

  4. CILs and Attorneys Question: Has your CIL ever worked with attorneys? _____ yes _____ no _____ have no clue

  5. Ways Lawyers Can Help Question: How can lawyers help your CIL?

  6. Ways Lawyers Can Help, cont’d. Question: How can lawyers help your CIL? • Legislative advocacy • Public policy work • To grimace at your bad lawyer jokes • Educate consumers about the law • Create self-help forms • Sue bad guys/girls • Research the law • There’s no need for them. The ADA solved all our problems.

  7. Recruiting Attorneys Question: Where do you find attorneys to work with?

  8. Recruiting Attorneys, cont’d. Question: Where do you find attorneys to work with? • Public interest organizations • Law firms • Chasing ambulances • Law schools • Bar associations • Highway billboards

  9. Managing the Relationship with Lawyers Question: How do you initiate positive relationships with lawyers?

  10. Managing the Relationship with Lawyers, cont’d. Question: How do you initiate positive relationships with lawyers? • Forget it, it is not possible – lawyers are too stuffy, dull, and full of themselves • Be clear, concise, and specific about what you need • Do background work before making contact with lawyer to demonstrate need and the issue’s importance

  11. Managing the Relationship with Lawyers, cont’d. 2 Question: After relationship is established, what should CILs do?

  12. Managing the Relationship with Lawyers, cont’d. 3 Question: After relationship is established, what should CILs do? • A happy dance • Educate lawyer about independent living philosophy • Insist that lawyer work “with” the CIL rather than “for” the CIL • Take the lawyer to lunch

  13. Questions?? • Use the chat window on your screen to type in your questions • Or press the number 7 on your telephone keypad to signal the operator

  14. Conflicts Check Lawyers sometimes cannot handle matters due to conflicts. Question: What does this mean?

  15. Challenges Question: What are the challenges of adding a legal component to the CIL’s work?

  16. Challenges, cont’d. Question: What are the challenges of adding a legal component to the CIL’s work? • Funding • Deciding the focus for legal work • Maintaining the focus • It is not like on TV • Patience

  17. Challenges, cont’d. 2 Question: How can a CIL fund legal work?

  18. Challenges, cont’d. 3 Question: How can a CIL fund legal work? • Grants • Financial support from law firms • Winning cases (attorneys’ fees) • Bake sale • Fellowships

  19. Questions?? • Use the chat window on your screen to type in your questions • Or press the number 7 on your telephone keypad to signal the operator

  20. Wrap Up and Evaluation Survey Your opinion counts! Click the link below to provide your evaluation of today’s webinar: https://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/12291g51c52

  21. For more information Contact: Kim Borowicz, Access Living KBorowicz@accessliving.org Ken Walden, Access Living KWalden@accessliving.org

  22. New Community Opportunities Center at ILRU This program is part of a series of trainings and other activities provided to the IL field by the New Community Opportunities Center at ILRU. The project’s purpose is to assist CILs in developing self-sustaining programs that support community alternatives to institutionalization for individuals of any age, and youth transition from school to post-secondary education, employment, and community living. ILRU’s partners and collaborators in the project include Utah State University, Center for Persons with Disabilities National Council on Independent Living Suzanne Crisp, national community alternatives expert Association of Programs for Rural Independent Living Michele Martin, Social Media Consultant

  23. New Community Opportunities Center Attribution This training is presented by the New Community Opportunities Center, a national training and technical assistance project of ILRU, Independent Living Research Utilization. Support for development of this presentation was provided by the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration under grant number H400B100003. No official endorsement of the Department of Education should be inferred. Permission is granted for duplication of any portion of this slide presentation, providing that the following credit is given to the project: Developed as part of the New Community Opportunities Center at ILRU.

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